Andrei Petrenko graduated from the Leningrad State Rimsky-Korsakov
Conservatoire, specialising in choral, opera and symphony conducting. Andrei
Petrenkoís performing career began in 1981 as a production conductor at the
Leningrad State Musical Comedy Theatre; he subsequently became the Director of
the Smolny Cathedral Chorus and was a guest conductor of the Congress Orchestra
of St Petersburg. From 1989 to 2000 he taught choral and symphony conducting at
the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire, in addition to holding
international master-classes with foreign students. Andrei Petrenko has toured
to more than twenty countries with various choruses, ballet companies and
symphony orchestras of St Petersburg. He has staged productions of operas in
Finland (Gounodís Faust in Pori) and in Estonia (Paisielloís Il barbiere di
Siviglia in Tallinn).

Since 2000, Andrei Petrenko has been the Mariinsky Theatreís Principal Chorus
Master. Among the most outstanding productions in which he has been involved in
recent years are operas such as Les Troyens, Benvenuto Cellini, Attila, Un ballo
in maschera, The Nose, War and Peace, Prince Igor, Eugene Onegin, The Love for
Three Oranges, A Life for the Tsar, The Golden Cockerel, Christmas Eve, La
Bohème, Parsifal, Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Götterdämmerung, Der Fliegende
Holländer, Jenůfa, The Gambler, Nabucco, Otello, The Enchantress, Turandot, The
Brothers Karamazov, Dead Souls, Tristan und Isolde, The Mystery of the Apostle
Paul, The Lefthander and A Christmas Tale among others.

At the Mariinsky Theatre he has conducted the operas Aida, La traviata,
Líelisir díamore, Don Pasquale (in concert), Samson et Dalila, Król Roger,
Prince Igor, Eugene Onegin, The Snow Maiden, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, The
Enchanted Wanderer, Sorochintsy Fair and War and Peace as well as the ballet Les
Noces and a staged version of Verdiís Requiem and cantata and oratorio works by
Mozart, Berlioz, Gavrilin, Rachmaninoff, Kastalsky and Prokofiev. He has
prepared numerous concert programmes featuring Mariinsky Opera soloists and the
Mariinsky Chorus and Orchestra. Andrei Petrenko conducted the world premiere of
Vladimir Martynovís Vita Nuova at the Moscow House of Music during the IV Moscow
Easter Festival.

Under the baton of Andrei Petrenko, the Mariinsky Chorus has performed a
cappella programmes at prestigious concert venues throughout Russia and in
Lithuania, Finland, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland,
Italy, Great Britain and Israel. Since 2008 Andrei Petrenko has been a guest
conductor of the Choeur de Radio France. Since 2014 he has been Artistic
Director of the Symphony Chorus of the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic.

Andrei Petrenko has received a written deed from President of the Russian
Federation Vladimir Putin for his great contribution to the preparations for the
Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014.